Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 4
Other hunters have other tricks: pitcher plants are slippery water slides into a pool of juice, sundews are covered in sticky drops, and underwater bladderworts suck in water fleas like tiny vacuum cleaners.
Who acts: Other hunters, pitcher plants, underwater bladderworts · What happens: have, be, cover, suck · To what, where: other tricks, slippery water slides, pool, sundews
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other hunters, pitcher plants, underwater bladderworts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hunters | amod |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tricks | amod |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plants | compound |
| 8 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 slides | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slides | cop |
| 10 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 slides | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slides | compound |
| 12 | slides | slide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pool | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pool | det |
| 15 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slides | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 juice | case |
| 17 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pool | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 covered | punct |
| 19 | sundews | sundew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 covered | aux:pass |
| 21 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 slides | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 drops | case |
| 23 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 drops | amod |
| 24 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 covered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 suck | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 suck | cc |
| 27 | underwater | underwater | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bladderworts | amod |
| 28 | bladderworts | bladderwort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 suck | nsubj |
| 29 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 covered | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 fleas | case |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fleas | compound |
| 32 | fleas | flea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 suck | obl |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 cleaners | case |
| 34 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cleaners | amod |
| 35 | vacuum | vacuum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cleaners | compound |
| 36 | cleaners | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 fleas | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Other hunters | other tricks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | pitcher plants | slippery water slides | a pool of juice | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cover | present · passive | sundews | in sticky drops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in drop=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suck | present | underwater bladderworts | in water fleas like tiny vacuum cleaners | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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